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A barrage of evening gunfire that wounded four men and killed an additional man in West Baltimore accounted for less than half the city’s shooting victims Thursday, the most violent day of acting Police Commissioner Michael Harrison’s short tenure. In all, 12 people were shot — four fatally — in...

Five people were shot in northwest Baltimore near Bloom St. & Pennsylvania Ave. (Ulysses Muñoz, Baltimore Sun video)

Five people were shot in northwest Baltimore near Bloom St. & Pennsylvania Ave. (Ulysses Muñoz, Baltimore Sun video)

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Two women said Thursday that singer R. Kelly picked them out of a crowd at a Baltimore after-party in the mid-1990s when they were underage and had sex with one of the teens although she was under the influence of marijuana and alcohol and could not consent. The Baltimore Sun does not typically...

Johns Hopkins University and its health system surpassed its three-year goals for bolstering local companies and residents. The HopkinsLocal initiative — launched in 2015 to promote economic growth and inclusion in Baltimore — has worked to encourage the institution to hire more Baltimore residents,...

The conversation carried on long after the crowd dispersed from the Ed Smith Stadium concourse, where local business leaders line-danced to the Cupid Shuffle and got to hear from the new faces of the Orioles at Wednesday’s Chamber of Commerce dinner. New executive vice president and general manager...

Opinion

Some people would like to keep lynchings in the past. It happened so long ago, they will say. Why dredge up animosity from a generation ago? One reader wrote in a recent letter to the editor: Resentment can be stirred among white individuals who hold no racist views yet are being made to feel that...

The president's decision to declare a national emergency at the southern border was an act of weakness, not strength. I understand that's not the party line, but it's an obvious political fact. When Barack Obama used his pen to give "Dreamers" a reprieve from prosecution, it was an act of weakness,...

During the most recent court hearing on the consent decree designed to transform the Baltimore Police Department, U.S. District Court Judge James Bredar, who is overseeing its implementation, spoke of some impediments to the process thus far. He lamented the lack of a permanent police commissioner...

I’ll turn 60 this year, a milestone age in most views. I’ve settled into middle age at this point: 32-year marriage, house paid off, three kids through college with jobs and health insurance, two dogs. The dogs are good company, and we talk to them as if they are our children, half-expecting answers...

Business

One of the developers behind an ambitious project to transform a swath of Baltimore just east of downtown has been awarded a $3.37 million grant from the U.S. Treasury Department to help build affordable homes in the city’s Somerset neighborhood. Mission First Housing Group, one of the developers...

The chief operating officer of the Stronach Group said Wednesday that it wants to invest $80 million to make Laurel Park a world-class facility and $40 million to do the same at the Bowie Training Center — the latest move suggesting Preakness may move to Laurel Park. In recent years, the Stronach...

Bon Secours Mercy Health System has joined five other hospital systems and a set of nonprofit groups to bring more affordable housing to communities including Baltimore. The hospitals are working with the Center for Community Investment at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a nonprofit group...

The average fare for airline travel within the United States has hit the lowest level since the government started keeping track in 1995, after adjusting for inflation. However, that doesn't count fees that airlines add for things like checking a bag, getting a better seat, or moving up in the...

Entertainment

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk famously suggested that there is a high likelihood that humanity is living within a computer simulation. On Thursday, Nintendo offered some possible evidence to bolster that theory as it announced that Reggie Fils-Aime will step down in April as president of the...

Peter Tork, a blues and folk musician who became a teeny-bopper sensation as a member of the Monkees, the wisecracking, made-for-TV pop group that imitated and briefly outsold the Beatles, died Feb. 21. He was 77. The death was announced by his official Facebook page, which did not say where or...

Following an 18-month, $14 million renovation, the Shriver Hall Concert Series will return March 3 to the venue that gave the popular music program its name. The organization announced Wednesday in a news release that the opening recital in its refurbished home at 3400 N. Charles St. will be performed...

If there’s one great thing about being an adult, it’s that (theoretically) you can eat dessert whenever you want. If you want to skip a healthy dinner and eat nothing but cake and brownies, no one is around to tell you no. The bad thing about being an adult is that it’s easy to forget just how...

Readers: Think you know your Baltimore? Try answering our weekly trivia question. Some weeks will be ridiculously easy, some weeks a bit more challenging. Put your best guess in the “answer” field and hit “submit.” Or comment on Instagram: @retrobaltimore. If you’d like to be recognized for a correct...

In the early 1800s, you could walk the city of Baltimore in an evening. Thanks to researchers from UMBC, who have created a 3D digital model of Baltimore circa 1815, you can see an approximation of what that walk would have looked like — building-by-building, block-by-block. If you didn’t know...

Winter, the season for snow, warm fires, and hot cocoa, is finally here. Use the next birthday on your calendar as an excuse to put on a party that will be so hot, everyone will forget about the chilly frost outside. With our warming recipes and appetizers, we know you’ll develop a perfect menu...

To make good chocolate, it all starts with the right bean. The cocoa beans manufactured for Hunt Valley’s Charm School Chocolate factory and retail store arrive in 120-pound burlap sacks, with anywhere from 35,000 to 40,000 large almond-shaped nuggets per bag. Carefully but nimbly, Joshua Rosen...

Sun Investigates

Another former Baltimore school board member has landed a high-paying job with the school system Tina Hike-Hubbard, who left the board in January 2018, was recently named the district’s chief of communications and community engagement. She will oversee community engagement, partnerships, communications...

Almost nine months after Baltimore County Police officer Amy Caprio was struck and killed by a fleeing vehicle, attorneys continue to comb through a mountain of evidence collected in the case of four young men charged in her death. Included in the evidence are more than 50 CDs containing videos,...

Anne Arundel County officials moved Tuesday to end the controversial practice of asking victims of sexual assault to waive their rights to an investigation. The policy change came the same day that The Baltimore Sun reported that police departments in the Baltimore area prompted victims to waive...